I compiled everything Sunday and installed it - now I can't get the
kernel to build due to bad characters found by as. I managed to
demonstrate the problem with a small file (I know that the syntax
is bad)
The comments above each #define indicate what whitespace is on each
line
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/* CONSTANT0<space><tab>45 */
#define CONSTANT0 45
/* CONSTANT1<TAB>76 */
#define CONSTANT1 76
/* CONSTANT2<SPACE>91 */
#define CONSTANT2 91
/* CONSTANT3<tab><space>3 */
#define CONSTANT3 3
mov $CONSTANT0,eax
mov $CONSTANT1,eax
mov $CONSTANT2,eax
mov $CONSTANT3,eax
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now, you run this through cpp and you get:
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# 1 "grod"
mov $ 45,eax
mov $76,eax
mov $91,eax
mov $ 3,eax
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Note that CONSTANT0 & 3 were replaced by '<tab>45' and '<space>3'
which causes as to barf - is this know or am I the only idiot?
Thanks
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Dave Cornejo There is nothing so subtle
Dogwood Media as the obvious
Fremont, California
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